Find out how to get a fantastic white pop on your cards by using a crayon and resist technique, hop on over to the Capture the Moment blog for a video tutorial.
-Heather
Tutorial | Mini Magazine Notebooks
Use supplies you have on hand to make mini notebooks to toss in your bag, or use as mini scrapbooks. Harri from Cupcake Crafty used magazine pages for her covers, but this should also work with patterned papers. Click here… Read More...
All in the Process
Ronna Sarvas Weltman makes big, organic necklaces with wonderful colour combinations, texture and shapes. Her polymer clay beads are made with a variety of techniques including marbling, carving, and antiquing. She shares a stack of photos from her process of … Read More...
Party Food – Cowboys And Indians
This adorable (I think I am starting to use that word too much) party food idea is from Moodkids.nl. You can print out the Cowboy and Indian characters (Free) and then prop them on to the food stick. These … Read More...
Felt Halloween Wreath tutorial
This is the cutest wreath in its bright orange color, but you could make it black with white ghosts. First up was a lovely Halloween Felt Wreath. “Make and Takes” used the pattern from All Things Simple, inspired … Read More...
Tips for sewing and caring for corduroy garments
If you’re eyeing some corduroy fabric for use in your cooler weather sewing projects, check out this post at Did You Make That?. She gives some tips for sewing on corduroy. The things we love most about corduroy – … Read More...
DIY Lace and Bead Cuff Tutorial
Angela from French Wedding Style shares how she created this beautiful Lace Cuff in her blog series “Journey of Belle Bride Angela.” She used some of the vintage lace from her Mother’s wedding dress in her design. How sweet! … Read More...
Tutorial: Add leather knee patches to pants, no sewing required
Aimee from Clones ‘N Clowns shows how to add leather knee patches to a pair of pants. This is a no-sew project, as she uses leather adhesive to attach the patches to the pants. If you wanted to stitch the … Read More...
Freebie: Sewing Basics Resource Guide
Sew4Home is a great source of home dec and accessories project how-to’s. Their tutorials have detailed steps with photos along the way, helping even beginning sewers create projects they’re proud of. Now they’ve got a downloadable guide made just for … Read More...
Knit Your Revolt! – Crafting in Protest
All across Australia, knitters are uniting in protest against what they see as an undeniable turn towards misogynistic and right wing politics. How, you might ask, are they accomplishing that? By crafting in protest. 18 craft groups and 100 + … Read More...
A Sweet Little Kerchief to Knit as a Gift
I’m sort of smitten with this lovely little kerchief pattern from Eddie’s Room. The Lepidina Kerchief is a quick knitting little triangle featuring flowers worked in eyelets. It has a little button closure to keep it on your neck and … Read More...
Amazing Lego Man – Frozen Pudding Snacks
So who loves Lego?? Asks amazingly talented Michelle of sugarswings. Apparently almost a billion kids.
She has managed to combine two loves of kids together in one great recipe using this lego man mold.
Go get her super cute recipe … Read More...
Cool Cement Projects For The Home
I normally don’t link to BuzzFeed. It’s just not very DIY friendly. But they have this wonderful list of 22 great projects using cement. And it has some great ideas.
Like making some cement painted brooches, coasters, and … Read More...
Coconut Oil For Stretch Marks
HenryHappend shares her secret to stretch mark repair or avoidance, its “Coconut Oil”. I wish I had used something when I was pregnant with my two Baby Hippos Children. I am now left with post pregnancy stretch marks. Apparently stretch … Read More...
Bath Activities – Ice cream Parlor
A bath or hot shower has always been my go to place when my world is crashing down around me. I don’t know why but I find a hot shower is my escape. It seems I have bestowed this upon … Read More...
10 Sandwich Alternatives for School Lunches
Late last week, I linked to Keely McGuire’s post on 20 non-sandwich school lunch ideas. Over the last week – that post has become a star hit on our site. So thank you Keely. We hope you have found … Read More...
Goodie Giveaway
Want to get yourself in the running for a whole bunch of cool stuff pop on over to Craftside and you may be the proud new owner of:
Knitting Club Banned from Library for Being Too Loud
This sort of sounds like a story that would come from The Onion, but it’s true, far as I can tell: the Knit and Natter group in Cramlington, Northumberland, has been banned from meeting in the city’s new library because … Read More...
DIY Spice Caddy (From Recycled Materials)
Completely recycled – using baby food jars from freecycle, miss p from portialawrie has created this DIY spice caddy.
It looks fabulous and are a great hack – for anyone who has way too many spices and not enough space.… Read More...
Tutorial: Add contrast binding to a button up shirt
Heather from Feather’s Flights shows how to add contrast binding to a button up shirt. While she was at it rounded the cuffs and the collar to more of a Peter Pan shape. She shows it with two solids (solid … Read More...